A long time coming...

It's been far too long since the last post so let's get all you non-facebookers up to speed! We spent a lot of time in Prague making the most of the cheap beer, the record worked out at about 70p a pint so we thought we had to really! We got the hang of the transport eventually but did have a few blunders right until we left the city; who'd have thought picking the right platform would be so difficult. We explored all the touristy bits of the old town but liked the little quarter's much more. If any one goes out there for a cheap weekend get yourselves across the Charles Bridge asap. Speaking of which, we had a little dance on it to a jazz band. We're trying to dance in every place we go and doing a good job so far. Saturday took us to the royal gardens and the castle (by accident) but there were far too many people to stick around for long so a quick walk up the hill and we found a BMX competition and a live rock band wearing matching Wally outfits. We spent a bit of time watching some crazy riders doing back flips and if we can get the internet to behave there's some videos to follow. Dinner was fun - Christine managed to order the stinkiest cheese known to man, it really should have had a warning sign with a picture of feet. Then we lost the internet thanks to a change of lodgings which is why I'm sitting on the train writing all this offline trying to remember the best bits to write about. Gabriela was a great host but her cats weren't so keen on sharing the apartment and one made this abundantly clear by peeing on my (James) side of the bed. It might not have been such a problem but I didn't realise until we went to bed. Cue a tight squeeze into half a bed and relief that we had 2 matresses. We had a day trip to Czesky Krumlov in Bohemia (more out of guilt that Gabriela had looked up train times for us at 11pm straight after work) but it was worth it. Beautiful town with a castle on a cliff guarded by bears. That was the way we imagined Czech Rep would look. Next day we went to Kutna Hora, anyone we've spoken to during planning knows just how long we've been waiting to go there: The town has a chapel decorated with the bones of 40,000 people, even a chandelier made of them. It's supposed to instill the idea that in death everyone is equal. And then to Germany...country number 2! But we'll let you have a rest and make a cup of tea before rambling on about Dresden. We miss you all, thanks for the likes and comments from the facebookers; it's nice to know you're thinking of us. Speak soon!